i was just about to bring that up, especially Victoria Vivians. that's not a sign i was hoping she would make it. i watched a fews mins of it couldn't watch the whole thing cuz the stream was garbage but from what i've saw Mitchell and Nared was gettin buckets together

starting lineup i think

Canada
Mitchell
Nared
Billings
Wilson

that's kinda scary folks...im curious though if the UCONN players were available who wouldn't of made the team

I agree Glenn. I was told it was to set the tone and pace of the try outs but it seems like a heck of a lot of traveling etc.

Almost seems like they were keeping a lot of college coaches happy by spreading the wealth, noticed Moore didn't make it with Walz as the coach after her transfer😉.

Glenn seemed to have a missconception of what this is all about. In his OP he referred to the "U23 "Games" as if this was some sort of FIBA sponsored championship when in fact it is little more than a sort of Junkeroo Jam, limited to 4 teams, except it's being held half way around the world. If there is any waste of money it's the round robin tournament itself, which seems to be litttle more than a bunch of developmental scrimmages whose purpose is to evaluate the cream of college basketball with an eye to see who will be invited to the tryouts for the next Olympics and going forward from there. And in that respect it would be natural to invite the 3 AA's from UConn along with the current and erstwhile Duke players.

If frugality was a concern they would have saved all those plane fares to and stratospheric hotel prices in Tokyo and just had the 40 players stay in Colorado and play against each other, which in all likelihood would provide better competition than what they will face in Japan.

I'm curious about why the U23's in the WNBA weren't picked, like Brionna Jones will be U23 for the next year too. DDeShields is another.

Well, the USAB release linked in the first post of this thread said "Athletes eligible for this team must be U.S. citizens who are 23 years old or younger and currently are freshmen, sophomores or juniors in college.". So I suspect that provides your answer.

OK. So I just read this post. But some of these players are clearly seniors. Maybe because they haven't entered their senior year yet IDK. But my statement still stands that this is pretty old for an age-specific event.

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Leaving them with only 3 players over 6-0. Does that put McPhee and Atkins in the post rotation? 😳

Jeff Walz, the HC, favors guard heavy teams... it's his style. Coaches have their styles.. Dawn probably would've had 3 or 4 versatile forward/centers and 2 or 3 more Jamie Nared/Napheesa Collier type guard/forwards on this team because Dawn loves forwards. When you're cherry picking from the best this is the only opportunity coaches have to build their "dream" rosters..

If you were anticipating that I would do the usual rosters for the World University Games, I think that I will not be doing it for that tournament in light of other international play this summer that actually falls under the FIBA banner.